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My daughter in law sent me this picture. It is clearly a poodlle mix of some kind but I can't quite make out what kind.............
she's only about 17 months in this picture. It's hard to tell how big she will get.
There are some behavior issues---but nothing insurmountable.

Poor Maggie has been so distracted by Daisy that she hasn't had too many opportunities to seek out and test what is acceptable and not acceptable in her new enviroment. She's still in survival mode. It has come to the point where we keep them separated for much of the day and evening. One comes in; the other goes out.



But I remember an instance when Daisy trying to discover what she could or couldn't do.



It was probably her first week home. She was all of 5 lbs. We were… Continue

Yesterday little Maggie was chasing around the yard and randomly dropping down on her belly---laying as flat as she could in the grass just tall enough to reach her "eyebrows".

She would raise her head just a smidge to look around the yard and see who might be tracking her.

I just had the sense that she felt invisible when she pressed her head down and her eyes dropped into the tall grass.



It reminded me of our golden retriever Bonnie. She was a big girl. Even if she… Continue

The Drurys have a reputation for embellishing stories for the sake of making them more entertaining. This is a personality defect that goes back many generations. It is particularly prevalent in males.

But you have my word that this doodle tale is the truth---every word of it.



The cast of characters is small: Daisy, the 11 month old golden doodle; Maggie, the 10 week old golden doodle who had only been with us 48 hours; mom--napping in the guest bedroom at 4 PM;… Continue

Maggie.

(Magnolia, mag-o-licious, mag dog, mag-nanimous....)



The short list for names had been whittled down to Iris, Rhoda.......oh yeah.....and Maggie----a previous front-runner now slipped from the spotlight.

We spent the first day together and in my mind I was trying to decide between Iris and Rhoda. My wife was as well.

Neither one was feeling right. But it was just day one; not a normal day. Daisy was being a freak and the little one barely slept all… Continue

Some days it seemed like today would never arrive. She flew from Portland, Or to Burbank, Ca this morning. 2 hours; arrived at 11:15.

We are now a two-doodle family.



The puppy is home. 10 weeks and 2 days old. Don't know her official weight yet. She will be going to the vet tomorrow morning for her post-homecoming once over. But she is BIG compared to our first girl at the same age.

Our first girl--Daisy---came home at 9 weeks and… Continue